Frans Zwartjes Movies

Frans Zwartjes' two visions of womanhood in Behind Your Walls have all the febrile frustration associated with his previous work. Flesh looks like...

A man and his female helper lather a blindfolded woman's naked body with various foodstuffs.

An experimental film by Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

Three women, wear makeup or masks, having a meal.

Set on the landing and the stairs of Zwartjes’ new house, then still empty, in The Hague. The filmmaker suggests a mysterious and complex space...

An experimental short from Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes.

A short documentary about dancer and choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

Zwartjes made many films without dialogue or sound. The music can however be very important. Zwartjes composes it himself, sometimes together with...

"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the...

In a monumental building a group of scientists submit women to obscure experiments in which sexuality and cruelty constantly merge into one another....

Short film by Frans Zwartjes

A man in drag sits on a couch holding a fan. The wallpaper behind him is floral patterned. Although the man does little more than looking around and...

Two girls nestle beside each other on a couch and try desperately to conceal their mutual craving. Sexuality is suggested through the weird rhythm of...

To mark his ninetieth birthday, EYE has restored Zwartjes’ very first film, originally shot on Super-8 and long thought lost. Zwartjes started...

A woman plays with a bird as the camera's gaze is drawn to her legs.

A strangely-dressed man reaches for some sorbet and then eats it; A playful, expertly-edited excercise from Zwartjes.

Frans Zwartjes and his wife explore their new home, and the sexual tension they've brought with them to it.

Spectator is one of the early masterpieces by Zwartjes. The film explicitly shows one of Frans Zwartjes’ main themes: the relationship between...

Frans Zwartjes' adaptation of Euripides' tragedy, originally produced for stage by the actresses Josée Ruiter and Çanci Geraerdts.

First film by Paul de Nooijer, in collaboration with his artistic father Frans Zwartjes. Moving Stills shows a series of photographs by...